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TO ADVERTISERS!

For check for $50 we will print a ten-lne ad-
vertisement in One Million issues of leading
The advertisement will be placed before One
Million different newspaper purchaser or FIVE
MILLION READERS. Ten lines will accommodate
about IS words Address with copy Of Adv and
check, send 30 cents for Book OF 176 pages GEO.
p. ROwELL & Co., 10 Spruce St., New YORK.
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PantalOOnS.

Or if you prefer to have
them called Trousers so be
they called; call them eth
er or both we can offer
genuine bargains in either
ready-made or to order.
Think of a pair of all-wool
stylish Trousers made to
your order and guaranteed
to fit and give satisfaction
in every way for $5 ; what
can you expect? But you
will get more than you ex-
pect if you patronize us.
Our reduced prices for fine
custom work are doing the
business as our wOrkrooms
will show. We are having
great success on full dress
suits at prices fully 25 per
centless thanusually charg-
ed for such work. In
Ready-Made Clothing new
goods are constantly COM
ing and you will find them
unusually attractive and
low in price for as our busi-
ness increases we are ena-
bled to handle goods at
less advance above cost.
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WILMINGTON CLOTHING House
416 Market Street,
John W. Diefend0rf,
MANAGER.

N. B.-We will open our custom
room on the second floor on
March 5th, with the largest and
best selected stock of foreign and
domestic suitings and trOuserings
to be found in our city. Our
cutter has no superior. We ask
you to give us one trial. Truly
yours,
JOHN w. DIEFENDORF,
mar 2-3m Manager.
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FOR HALF A DOLLAR.

We have paid special attention this year to medium
priced goods and can show you the Finest Line Of
Fifty-cent Spring Dress Goods offered for the
money. The line includes all kinds Of Stripes Checks
Plain Goods. Norfolk Suitings, India Mixtures, and
among the others Bargain in Fifty-inch Wool Serge
All of these are New Goods and all at 80 cents.
Another Bargain in a lot Of Surah Silks and Rha-
DANES, New Shades and Excellent Quality Is cents.
We are still selling our Premium BLACK
SILK at SlOO. For wear and finish these goods have
never been eXceled
New French and American SateenS, New Spring
Jackets.
Ladies' Underwear cheaper than you can buy muslin
and make it up.
HALLS,
26 South Second Street, Philadelphia.
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Stop over the Aannels.
Dainty woods. Do you know
Simonis batiste the lightest
wOOlen stufs for men? They
are known in the tropics. Many
another wOolen manufacturer
has nearly gone crazy with
envy of Simonis But the
Scotch with these flannels have
almost caught the Belgians.
Gingham colors toned down
by the wool. Strong. That's
due to cotton in the chain.
You couldn't find it if we hadn't
said it. You might suspect it
when washing told you Of the
little shrinkage-or none.
Plaids, Overplaids and stripes.
Wish we had the whole column
for these flannels, but other
things are clamoring. 80 inch
es. soc. to Soc. Next.
Sc otch ginghams-twilIed
zephyr ginghams. Look sharp.
Could you tell them from En-
glish dress worsteds? Don't
believe you could all by your
self. They are just nothing
but cotton, only they have had
a Scotch training, and that's
usually thorough. Cotton like
worsted. 80 inches. 4Oc.
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srn

RmnAIEVE tobe made. Cut this out and
MMHMAW return to us, and we will
send yuu free, something of
huh WILL great value and importance
TO yOu that will start you in business which will
bring you In more money right away than any
thing else in this world. Any one can do the
work aud live at home Either sex all ages.
Something new, that just coins money for all
workers We will start you; capital not needed
This Is cnc of the genuine. important chances Of
a lifetime. IhUse who are amhliOuS and enter
prising will not delay. Grand outfit free Address
TRUE Il Co, Augusta, Maine jan l21y
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Elliott, Johnson d Co.,
Nv,In,,nmton noIo~vor,

Wilmington Delaware
Buy and sell Stocks bonds aud all other seourl-
ties on commission and have Direct Private Wires
from their Office to all principal cities and ex-
changes. Grain and Provisions bought and sold
In Chicago. Deposits received and Interest allow
sold. jan SLY
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Boys clothing. Small boys
clothing. If we don't make
this the place which you will
prefer to all others for your
bows clothing purchases it will
be because we don't know
how. The Spring things are
coming; bright, beautiful. The
place in which you see the
goods-gay with daylight all
the day long. Ease, comfort
all about. Why not clothe
your boys here? Why not?
You'll have to give it up and
come.
Spring and Summer com
fortables: cheese cloth hlled
with pure carded cotton. The
cost a trihe: better for you at
this season than twice the
money in blankets; $I.75 for
white; So for pink, blue, red OF
yellow Tufted with contrasting
colors.
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An Event
in
Oak Hall
Spring Clothing.

PlSSS
through faulty quality, their first high reputation;
honest as wheat; for more than two generations (he
mills passing meanwhile from father to sons) their
good standing has known setback good now as
ever-better improved machinery, improved methods
have helped to make them better.
Your fOrefathers wore them; boy and man
wanting goods to wear sturdiy as Yankee probty,
got Harris Cashmere
Now, then byclosebargainng, anda less profit than
we deserve we have Harris goods at price to make
a noise over.
PantalOOns at $500.
syes) '''OO V1
We could ticket bargain" all over them.
they'll stand head of the market; hold front rank
among fine goods offered for the money royal for
wear-for looks.
like .
Send for packet of samples
Wanamaker & Brown,
Sixth and Market Streets,
Philadelphia.
Smyrna times., 1887-03-23

The new Bed Spreads that
look like Marseilles and weigh
like Honeycomb are going
with bang. A happy medium
at SI.5o. Marseilles range
from Sis to So and Honey
comb from 90 cents to $I.65.
Smyrna times., 1887-03-23
MaF1ata4atsSr' '&.

PHILADELPHIA, March 2l, 1887.
A letters as good as a visit
to get anything we've got.
Smyrna times., 1887-03-23

RefrigeratOrs and Ice Chests
are ready. Ahead of the sea
son, of course, but there are
plenty of wide awake buyers.
Smyrna times., 1887-03-23

This from a letter to the
makers Of a securing stuff;
why do you charge IS cents
for Electro Silicon when Wana-
maker asks but 8 cents?" Sure
enough, why? Peep into other
mails and you'll find plenty of
such queries. No matter why!
IOHN WANAMAKER.
Chestnut, Thirteenth and Market streets
and City-hall square.
Smyrna times., 1887-03-23

This is for informa
besides advantage
A little history will
our business side I
Edward Harris was r.,
of Cashmere makers in ul~
United States his race has
multiplied.
The goods have never lost,
Smyrna times., 1887-03-23

Nine-tenths of the stores only
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smyrna Branch Trains.

coiro North, us, S.2s, 1851 A. NJ, 442P NJ.
Soins south, $50 A. NJ, 207, 457 and 7.45PM.
Smyrna times., 1887-03-23

Going North, Gas, 1880 A. M, and AIS, 7.20P.M.
Going south, 9.S5 A. M, and 7.2O Pm.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-08
An Interesting Discovery.

A discovery of the highest importance
has Just taken place at Laurium. In the
ancient silver mines from the possession OF
which Athens dates her grandeur, the
wealth derived therefrom having enabled
Themistocles TO build her fleet and Pericles
to adorn her Acropolis with the gems of
architecture and sculpture. many objects
have been found belonging TO the Grecian
workmen, but nothing hitherto denotlng
the presence of Christians, except few
terracotta workmen's lamps having in re-
lief upon them the cross or other Christian
symbols. Some members of the French
School at Athens when engaged recently
in exploring the narrow galleries near
the surface, at a place called Puzzo Ane-
none, between the two great workings of
the French company at Camaresa and
Sureza suddenly came upon some short
inscriptions cut in the rock, which, to their
great surprise, proved to be undoubtedly of
Christian origin. Whether these were rec
ords left by the prosecuted Christians con-
demned to these mines by the Romans, as
we know they were sent to work in the
mines OF Sardinia Egypt and the Caucasus,
cannot now, perhaps, be ascertained. The
extreme difficulty of deciphering these in
scriptions may be judged from the marrow
and almost impossible nature of the gal
leries of the ancient mines, such as de-
scribed Them in this locality Ill a letter to
the Attenalun in March of last year. Ot
these inscriptions five or six were ldennhed
by NM. Diehl and Radel as early Chris
tan, very like those found in the Roman
catacombs. Crosses appear frequently upon
them, and they consist of thirteen phrases
or Inaxims and invocations of God. They
will be published shortly with illustrations.
Cor. London Athel&um.
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The aRounustn of Wine.

The most important thing to remember
in drinking wine is, after all, that its es-
sence, its soul. lies in the perfume or "bou-
quet.' On this bouquet the commercial
and gastronomic value of wines depend al
most entirely. Old wines are, as rule,
the best, because age mellows their tartness
and intensifies the perfume. Tokay is con-
sidered the queen of wines, because, while
its percentage of alcohol is smaller even
than that Of Bordeaux and Burgundy
wines. it has a rich and most exquisite bou
quet, which the art of the chemist is as
pcweriess. to reproduce as the fragrance of
a wild violet. To know how to drink wine
is the thing next in importance. II is an
art but little understood by the multi
tude. Unlike beer, it should always be
slipped, and the smaller the quantity
taken at a time the more delicious
will be its fragrance. Dealers in genuine
wines (rdrs dpes) have habit of placing
before an intending purchaser several sam
pies in small glasses. If he gulps down
the whole glass at once he will in all prob
ability not get the choicest brands, for the
dealer justly reasons that would be throw
ing pearls where they would not be appre-
ciated. Such q drinker is like tourist
who I" does" a whole gallery in the time
that should be devoted to a single picture
Epicures allow their Chambertin or Leo
vile to melt on the tongue, as it were and
roll down the throat slowly, all the while
enjoying the fragrance by exhaling through
the nose (unconsciously). 1t should be
added, however, that in the case of wine,
as of fruit, the external odor is also Of
much importance. Hence the wider the
glass the larger is the evaporating surface
and the more luscious the bouquet.-Tze
Contemporary Review.
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Falling in Love.

We do fall in love, taking us in the lump
with the young, the beautiful, the strong
and the healthy. We do not fall in love-
taking us in the lump, with the aged, the
ugly, the feeble and the sickly. The pro-
hibition of the Church is scarcely needed
to prevent man from marrying his grand
mother. Moralists have always borne a
special grudge to pretty faces but, as Her.
bert Spencer admirably put it (long before
the appearance of Darwin's selective
theory, " the saying that beauty is but skin
deep is itself but skin-deep saying" In
reality beauty is one of the very best
guides we can possibly have to the de-
STABILITY, SO far as race preservation
is concerned, of any man or any
woman as partner in marriage. A fine
form, good figure, a beautiful bust a
round arm and neck, a fresh complexion, a
lovely face, are all outward and visible
signs of the physical qualities that on the
whole conspire to make up healthy and
vigorous wife and mother; they imply
soundness, fertility, a good circulation, q
good digestion. Conversely, sallowness and
paleness are roughly indicative of dyspep
STA and anemia; a flat chest is a symptom
of deficient maternity, and what we call a
bad figure is really, in one way or another,
an unhealthy departure from the CEN
LTdl anu upiL VI TIC
race. Good teeth mean good degluti-
ton; clear eye means an active
liver; scrubbness and undersizedness
mean feeble virility. Nor are indications
of entail and moral efficiency by any
means wanting as recognized elements in
personal beauty. A good humored face is
in itself almost pretty. A pleasant smile
half redeems unattractive features. Low
and receding foreheads will strike us I'M
favorably. Heavy, stolid half idiotic
countenances can never be beautiful, how
ever regular their outlines and contours.
Intelligence and goodness are almost as
necessary as health and vigor in order to
make up our perfect ideal of a beautiful
human face and figure. The Apollo
Belvidere is no fool; the murderers
in the chambers of horrors at Madame
Tussaud's are for the most part no beauties.
What we all fall in love with, then, as a
race, is in most cases efficiency and ability.
What we each fall in love with individu-
ally is, believe, our moral, mental and
! physical complement. Not our like, not
our counterpart quite the contrary ;
within healthy limits. our unlike and our
opposite. That this is so has long been
more or less a commonplace of ordinary
conversation that it is scientifically true,
one time with another when we take an
extended range of cases, may, think. be
almost demonstrated by sure and certain
warranty of human nature.-Grdnt Allen
IN F0rtRightly RetieW.
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by every car, and cleaned but twice a year.
The fact that any desired speed can be
maintained, even so great as twelve miles
an hour on outlying districts if desired, per-
hitting also slowing up going round curves
and in crowded streets, is another consider
able advantage over the cable system. The
advantages over the steam elevated system
are too obvious to require enumeration.
The tests that have been given the new
motor so far seem to have been successful.
The car has been run under the many con-
ditions that would be required of 1t in
actual street work in cities; it has been
run loaded heavily with people-forty have
ridden in it at one time. causing no dimin-
ution of the speed-it has been driven up
steep grades and around sharp corners,
started and stopped and run at slow speed,
and apparently responds without failure 20
all such demands.
OF course this, to the minds OF directors
of street railways. which are run to make
money, is but the beginning of the demon
stration that they would require. Economy
is the most important element and this is
much more difficult matter to determine.
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Pre-Historin Remains

D. L. Moulton, of Madeline Plains, gives
US the following concerning the finding of
the remains of fishes, ETC., while digging a
well on his place Mr.. Moulton's ranch is
situated on the southeast side of Madeline
Plains. This fell, while sinking a well and
when at depth of fourteen feet, he struck
soft sand rock, which was taken out in
LAYERS of four to ten inches in thickness.
Between these layers he found a number
of skeletons of fishes, sea shells, leaves and
sticks, many of the leaves and sticks being
in q petrihed condition. The print of the
form of the fishes was distinctly marked
between the LAYERS of rock. and all the
bones were in a good state Of preservation.
One of the fish measured two feet in length,
and from the connection of the backbone
he was led to believe it lad been a Goldfish
or paddock, but in all probability was a
species now extinct These bones were
taken out and it was his intention to pre-
serve them, but on being exposed to the
air all except the back bones were crum-
bled into dust. He found many of these
fishes. which ranged from four inches to
two feet in length. They were firmly i'm
bedded in the sand rock with the imprint.
but upon being brought 10 the surface and
exposed to the air, it soon Stacked to such
an extent as to completely obliterate all
traces. He says it is his intention to sink
in another place and see what he can find.
There is no doubt but that at some time,
perhaps centuries back, the entire Madeline
plains were a sheet of water. which gradu-
ally receded, leaving the fish on dry land.
We hope Mr. Moulton will continue his
work, as some very important discoveries
might be made.-LdSSea AdSocdte.
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states That NAV BE swallowed Tn


The inhabitants in the region between
Charleston, S. c., and Atlanta, Ga, are
slowly working themselves into the belief
that they are living upon very thin shell,
and that any moment a vast caving in may
take place, completely ingulfng the two
States and possibly tripping up several
others. This belief is not founded upon a
fear nor developed by inferences. 1t is the
result of empirical science. Facts are being
gathered daily showing than an immense
cavity exists in the earth in this quarter.
A man in Laurens, S. c., dug well down
to point where each stroke of the pick
produced hollow sound, and finally the
bottom of the well fell out. A line was
produced but after using all the clothes
lines of the neighborhood no one could
find where the bottom went to, and all
hope of recovery has been abandoned.
In another town a part of the highway
disappeared recently into a bottomless pit,
and the authorities are afraid to look into
it. A local professor has made a careful
computation AID says that it will take all
the earth in the county to fill the cavity up,
and the Road Commissioners will have to
bridge it over or resign. In the town of
Ninety-Six, of revolutionary fame. there is
spot where every earthquake rumble in
Charleston has been heard distinctly, and
it is concluded that the subterranean cave
acts as an air chamber through which the
sound is conducted. There is a spot near
Dawson, Ca, where rain constantly falls
out of clear sky. This has been goingon
ever since the great earthquake of August
31st. The theory is that at this place the
crust of the earth is very thin, and the
temperature of the air is modified by the
temperature Of the vacuity beneath, thus
producing rain. Hundreds of people have
visited the spot, and testified to the damp
ness of the drops that fall, and, as Dawson
is prohibition town, no one can have the
face to cast any reflections upon the trust
werihiness of the evidence. We should
regret very much to lose two or three
States from the Union at this time. but if
it should cave in it would leave an invalu-
able curiosity. Excursion trains could be
run from all directions to the edges of the
crust of the earth, affordiDg at once recrea-
ton and instruction to thousands Of peo-
ple.-,SwinafeId Republican.
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AN ELECTRIC RAILWAY.
Description of System in Operation at
Providence.

Description of System in Operation at
Providence.
The Providence Journal says The mys-
terious horse-car is precisely like those that
travel our streets, and, indeed, was fur
nished by the Union Railroad Company to
be fitted with the electric appliance. A
closer examination of it reveals the secret
of its motive power. Between the axles and
underneath the floor of the car is little
machine that occupies space of thirty
inches square by ten deep. To this an
electric current is conveyed from con-
ductor in a sort of underground conduit
near the track-its position, whether be-
tween the rails or to one side is immaterial
by means OF sort of spring shoe or
plough upon the car which bears upon
the conducting rail with elastic pressure.
This current is thus conveyed to the mo-
tor. which is nothing more than sort of
miniature dynamo. Now, il is principle
in electric physics-a principle of COMPARE
lively recent discovery and of great i'm
portance-that while a dynamo, operated
by outside power, generates current of
electricity, the same current introduced
into another dynamo will cause il to re-
yolve and thus 10 generate power again.
This principle of the reversibility of the
dynamo" is what renders possible the ap-
hcation OF electricity to motive power, and
is what is here employed. The current
causes the motor to reyolye, and the latter
then communicates its motion to the axle
of the car wheels through a system OF
gearing. This IS the simple principle of
the contriyaBce; but the perfection of the
details has occupied many months of ex-
perimentation. The electric system in
our streets would require but little
change in existing appliances, the
chief Of which wonld be the under
ground electric conduit. This would be
small, far smaller than that required for
cable roads. and much easier 10 keep clean.
because there is no mechanism inside, and
it can be easily and constantly swept out
by appliances upon the cars themselves.
People who have seen the cable systems in
Chicago say that there is an almost son
slant miasma from the cable conduit.
which 10 practically great sewer stirred up
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The Resistance of the atmosphere.

From Professor Langley's illustrated
paper on Comets and Meteors in the jan
uary Century we quote as follows: Every
body has noticed that if we move fan
gently, the air parts before it with little
effort, while, when we try to fan violently,
the same air is felt to react; yet if we go on
to say that if the motion is still more vio-
lent, the atmosphere will resist like solid
against which the fan. if made of iron,
would break in pieces, this may seem to
some an unexpected property of the " nim-
BILE 1" air through which we move daily.
Yet this is the case, and if the motion is
only so quick that the air cannot get out OF
the way, body hurled against it will rise
in temperature like a shot striking an
armor- plate. 1t is all a question of speed
and that of the meteorite is known to be
immense. One has been seen to fly over
this country from the Mississippi to the
Atlantic in an appreciably short time,
probably in less than two minutes and
though at a presumable hight of over fifty
miles, the velocity with which it shot by
gave every one the impression that it went
Just above his head, and some witnesses
of the unexpected apparition looked the
next day TO see if it had struck their chin
neys. The heat developed by arrested mo-
ton in the case of mass of iron moving
twenty miles second can be calculated
and is found to be much more than enough,
not only to melt it. but to turn it into va
por though what probably does happen is,
according to Professor Newton, that the
melte surface portions are wiped away by
the pressure of the air and volatilized to
form the luminous train, the interior re.
naming cold, until the difference of tenn
perature causes fracture, when the stone
breaks and pieces fall-some of them al
red hot heat, some of them, possibly, at the
temperature of outer space, or far below
that of freezing mercury. Where dc
these stones come from? What made
them? The answer is not yet complete
but if part of the riddle is already yield
ing to patience, it is worthy of note, as ar
instance of the connection Of the sciences
that the first help to the solution of thi:
astronomical enigma came from the chem
lists and the biologists"
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replace The more elaborate methods now
generally adopted. Partisans of cremation
are sanguine that the introduction of cleo
tricity would Instantly remove the. objec-
tons held by many European States against
the burning of bodies. Dogs-we presume
dead dogs-have already been subjected &c
the process by its inventor with considera
bic degree of success. Their bodies forth
with eyaporated into nothingness, and
there was perceptible none of that dis
agreeable odor of burning flesh which in
habitants OF Working are said so greatly to
resent.-PdH Mall Gazette.